 | Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans - 2004 - 716 Seiten
...advice. Newton's reply begins with the well-known sentence: "When I wrote my Treatise about our Systeme, I had an eye upon such Principles as might work w[i]th considering men for the beleife of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose".' Cunningham,... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Volker Meja - 2011 - 451 Seiten
...p. 156. The quotation continues "I had my eye on such Principles as might work with considering man for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more " It would be a mistake to think that Newton had in mind any kind of sincere profession of belief in... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 2005 - 362 Seiten
...p. 156. The quotation continues "I had my eye on such Principles as might work with considering man for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more. . . ." It would be a mistake to think that Newton had in mind any kind of sincere profession of belief... | |
 | Max Jammer - 2006 - 332 Seiten
...December 1692, to Richard Bentley, a theologian and member of the Royal Society, in which he confessed: "When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had...nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for this purpose."16 Because of its theological connotations, namely of being associated with God's omnipresence,... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2005 - 384 Seiten
...of mathematics that he declares "When I wrote my treatise about our system (that is the Principia), I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a deity". 6 He even told Conduitt that the Principia was written "to enforce and demonstrate the power and superintendency... | |
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When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
